Wiki Wednesdays
English 11
Mr. Mullen

In order to enhance our reading of the novels, every Wednesday we will be in the computer lab working of the wiki. The idea is to design pages that help readers with your book. Think of it as a Sparknotes on steroids. As a group, you must work together to design and construct effective pages for your novel. You should do a minimum of one per week.

Pages should include various multimedia features (audio, images, video, power point, graphs, etc), not just text. Connections to your books should be concrete and logical. While I’m always game for humor, the humor should be in good taste and clearly relate to the book.

Due: Pages will be due at the end of each week, although an extension may be given to groups that are more ambitious with their design of the page.

Worth: 30 Points

Criteria For Success


A: Excellent

  • Is exceptionally creative and thoughtful in both content and use of multimedia.
  • Contains content that is extremely insightful
  • Clearly relates to the novel
  • Free from grammatical and mechanical errors
  • Clear collaboration between all group members

B: Very Good


  • Is creative and thoughtful in both content and use of multimedia.
  • Contains content that is insightful, although slight confusion may exist.
  • Relates to the novel, but questions may arise.
  • Free from grammatical and mechanical errors
  • Clear collaboration between all group members.

C/D: Competent


  • Presents content in a standard and/or confusing manner
  • Has little insight. Material is present, but doesn’t really enhance our reading and understanding of the book
  • Relates to some aspects of the novel, but is vague and/or incomplete.
  • Has grammatical and mechanical errors that are distracting.
  • Most members collaborate, but some are left out of the process.

F: Incomplete


  • Content is partial
  • No real insight into the novel.
  • Connection is extremely weak or very partial
  • Has several, distracting grammatical or mechanical errors
  • Group does not collaborate